This web site is a service of Medical
Patient Modesty. The primary purpose of Medical Patient Modesty
is to help to promote better patient modesty in medical settings
and help medical professionals to be more sensitive to the importance
of patient modesty in medical settings and help patients and their
spouses who wish have same gender care for certain procedures and/or
surgeries get their wishes. Some people who have concerns about
patient modesty have also been sexually abused by at least one medical
professional and they desire to find more resources on sexual misconduct
by doctors. Because of the feedback that we received from people
that we should also address sexual misconduct by doctors, Medical
Patient Modesty decided to develop a web site about sexual misconduct
by doctors. There are also some people who are interested in getting
tips on how they might be able to prevent sexual misconduct by physicians
from happening. Check out important information
you should know.

The purpose of this informational web site is to
help victims to know what they should do if they have been sexually
abused and how they can report sexual misconduct. It is very time
consuming to do research on the Internet about what you should do
when you have been sexually abused by a doctor. There is a web page
with links to complaint
forms on different state medical boards' web sites.

Another goal of this educational web site is to
give people some tips on how they can
prevent sexual misconduct. It is our hope that parents can use
the tips for parents to prevent
their children from being sexually abused by doctors. Because a
former pediatrician in Delaware has been accused of sexually abusing
over 100 patients according to the news, we need to work to prevent
children from being sexually abused by doctors in the future. The
horrible case in Delaware has proven that we cannot always trust
pediatricians to not hurt children. Parents tend to trust doctors
too much and they need to take precautions to protect their children.
Most pediatricians are good doctors who truly care about children
and would never sexually abuse children. A good pediatrician would
allow a parent to stay in the examining room with the child and
him.

Many doctors who have been disciplined for sexual
misconduct continue to practice medicine. Check out this article
by WHAS11 in Louisville, KY about how some doctors have kept
their licenses to practice medicine despite the fact they have been
disciplined for sexual misconduct. One 14 year old girl went to
a doctor for sore throat and he did a pap smear on her. There was
no need for him to do a pap smear on her. The state medical board
doesn't go far enough to protect patients sometimes. Check out an
article by Chicago Tribune about how doctor
sex misconduct cases are monitored in secrecy. This is not right.
The public deserves to know about sexual misconduct cases by doctors
to protect themselves.